Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

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Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by Chester Perry » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:22 pm

Not sure what I think about this

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:27 pm

Stockport did this a few years ago when they were still in the Football League but the league blocked them from wearing the numbers on the shirts

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by martin_p » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:37 pm

Don’t see the point.

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by groove » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:40 pm

I don't understand it
There's over a thousand names? Can someone explain this please?

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by groove » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:42 pm

Ahh I get it now. If your the 1259th person to play for them since they formed, you have that number on your shirt..... Don't see the point.

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Post by edison » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:44 pm

I am not a number, I am a free man

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:44 pm

groove wrote:Ahh I get it now. If your the 1259th person to play for them since they formed, you have that number on your shirt..... Don't see the point.
They do it in test cricket now, that's where the idea has come from.

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Post by martin_p » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:48 pm

ClaretTony wrote:They do it in test cricket now, that's where the idea has come from.
Never seen the point in that either. When I found out what the numbers meant my first thought was ‘so what?’

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Post by dsr » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:51 pm

It's surprising how many there are. I've done the same for Colne Cricket Club and the total (including sub-pros) is 701.

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Post by wilks_bfc » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:52 pm

Would be funny if in a years time they realised they’d made a mistake and missed somebody off the “list” so the numbers were wrong :lol:

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Post by edison » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:53 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:Would be funny if in a years time they realised they’d made a mistake and missed somebody off the “list” so the numbers were wrong :lol:
if you had, say, two players of the same name who appeared round about the same time?

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Post by martin_p » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:55 pm

And people make their debuts in the same match so I’m not sure it means much anyway. How did they decide who was number 1 given 10 other players must have made their debut at the same time?

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Post by dsr » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:57 pm

martin_p wrote:And people make their debuts in the same match so I’m not sure it means much anyway. How did they decide who was number 1 given 10 other players must have made their debut at the same time?
Cricket tradition is that the captain is number 1, the professional is number 11, and the others are in alphabetical order.

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by edison » Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:57 pm

martin_p wrote:And people make their debuts in the same match so I’m not sure it means much anyway. How did they decide who was number 1 given 10 other players must have made their debut at the same time?
Right enough. This doesn't erm, add up at all

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by dsr » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:00 pm

edison wrote:if you had, say, two players of the same name who appeared round about the same time?
Keighley Cougars said that any new discoveries will receive the next nuimber on the list; they won't rejig what has already been published.

It can easily happen. Colne CC had two sub-pros with the same name, and the only reason I found out was that Nigel (Lancs League website editor) pointed out that the first pro of that name was actually pro-ing for Lowerhouse on the day that the second pro of that name was pro-ing for Colne. Be a better story if I could remember the name!

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:26 pm

dsr wrote:Cricket tradition is that the captain is number 1, the professional is number 11, and the others are in alphabetical order.
I think Lancashire League tradition might have been that although that's generally disappeared now.

Weren't the Aussies the first to do it and they all followed on from that. They have different numbers too in cricket, for tests, ODIs & t20s.

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by randomclaret2 » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:32 pm

Id like to think that if we did something similar , Brian Jensen would be no. 666
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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by wilks_bfc » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:34 pm

randomclaret2 wrote:Id like to think that if we did something similar , Brian Jensen would be no. 666

Something for CT to figure out when he has a spare 10minutes :D

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Re: Bradford City take on Heritage Shirt numbering

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:54 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:Something for CT to figure out when he has a spare 10minutes :D
HA HA

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